Blog posts

Here's how to create the work atmosphere you want

How important is a work atmosphere really as a freelancer or small business owner? More important than you might think! Even if you work by yourself in your bedroom, the work atmosphere can have a lot of impact on your productivity and mood. Here are a few little things you can consider when creating your work atmosphere.

Expat coach Minou: "Coaching has nothing to do with weakness"

Is there a taboo on admitting that you're not doing well? According to expat coach Minou, coaching has nothing to do with that. Let alone with weakness. In fact, it is a choice to develop yourself faster and more effectively! Find out exactly what she does and why a coach can be effective, also for you as an entrepreneur, in this interview.

Is working for free really that bad?

I have four clients for whom I don't get paid, and sometimes I'm looked at very strangely for that. Why should you work for free? If you work at the Appie or in an office you get paid, don't you? I agree to some extent, but I think working for free has a bad reputation. Time to highlight both sides.

Interview Maaike: Coffee and Coaching, the ultimate entrepreneurial recipe?

Coffee, the ingredient that keeps many an entrepreneur going. Whether during a meeting, an acquisition conversation ("shall we discuss that over a cup of coffee.") or just to get through that last hour of typing on the laptop. Coffee is key.

How do you bring in the best freelancer ever?

Working with freelancers is SO chill and I'm not saying that because I'm a freelancer myself. For a company it just offers much more freedom, because you don't have to deal with mandatory team outings, vacations or maternity leave. As an individual, freelancers are also nice, because you have a business analysis or business cards in no time without being tied to a package or obligation.

4x struggles in entrepreneurship from Lina + what you can learn from them

Entrepreneurship wouldn't be entrepreneurship without struggles, falling flat on your face, lessons, mistakes, improvements, insights, flaws, updrafts and learnings. Our website builder Lina knows all about that. Today: 4x Lina's struggles and learnings. Watch and learn.

Entrepreneurial tips: how to develop yourself? Lina gives tips!

Did you end up at this blog because you're looking for low-key (as well as high-key) ways to develop? Nice. Because own very own Lina is here to enrich our lives with tips. In doing so, she draws on experience from her own entrepreneurial journey. You can read about (and learn from) her struggles and learnings in this blog. And now, time to spillllllll.

Conocer a Lina: from "always wanted to be an entrepreneur but I can't anyway" to "LOVE MY JOB"

Today it is time to put the third member of Think Factory Agency in the Mediterranean spotlight: Lina. What path has she taken to be where she is today? What does she think about entrepreneurship? Get to know our website builder better right away and read along with her journey.